Author: The Art Beacon

Owner, Bob Madden has turned his concept of food and drink for everyone into a celebration. On any given night you will find a new menu half vegan, half everything else. And music! There is always music! And art, fine art! Henryk Ptasiewicz enjoys painting to the music, the bustle of the servers and the…

Henryk Ptasiewicz designed seven St. Louis 250 cakes in the 2014 event. When asked about the design for his cake at Lambert Airport, Henryk said he enjoyed the fun modern design and he displayed Lindbergh’s Spirit of St Louis and the distinct yellow fire engines.

Henryk Ptasiewicz is an admirer of Vincent Price. Vincent Price, a native St. Louisan widely known as an actor mostly from his work in horror films, but he was also an art collector and historian. Henryk contributed a grand total of 7 cakes to the St. Louis 250 Cake project. One of those cakes was…

On the theme of Jews helping people and StL250 cakes, not many people know that when Dr. King was let out of Selma, he came to St Louis. It was too risky to shelter him in the community, black or white. The Jewish community took him in. When I visited the United Hebrew Congregation to see…